Landscaper Artist Helps Make
The Flora as Wild as the Fauna

It may be true that "only God can make a tree," but Paul Comstock can take 100,000 of them and make a theme park.

Of course, he cheated a little; he also used more than four million other plants -- shrubs, vines, ferns and grasses, encompassing over 3,000 species -- when he planned and planted the scenery at Disney's Animal Kingdom.

Mr. Comstock is principal landscape architect of the new park, which is scheduled to...